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Session 28 | Maximizing Your Medicaid Quality Incentive Add-On
Time: 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Type/Topic: Finance and Reimbursement
Session Summary
Understanding how the Florida Quality Incentive Add-On program works is challenging unto itself. Improving your quality incentive add-on is both an art and a science. This session will take attendees through the three process measures, five outcome measures, two structure measures and two credentials and offer strategies for improvement. Center operational leaders will learn how to set themselves up for success by creating a culture of improvement, while clinical leadership will take away specific measure assessment and care strategies.
Presenters
Steven Littlehale
Chief Innovation Officer | Zimmet Healthcare Services Group, LLC
About the Presenter
Steven Littlehale is an internationally known author and speaker on a broad range of health care and post-acute care topics. His numerous publications include various professional journal articles as well as a popular monthly blog in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News. Steven brings a career spanning more than 30 years ranging from direct nursing care to education, research and analytics, quality assurance/improvement, and consulting. He has a BS in nursing from the University of Vermont and an MS in nursing from Georgetown University.
Tom Parker
Senior Director of Policy & Reimbursement | Florida Health Care Association
About the Presenter
Tom Parker serves as the Senior Director of Policy & Reimbursement for the Florida Health Care Association. On behalf of FHCA, he serves as a liaison to American Health Care Association and FHCA Reimbursement Committee and represents long term care providers before the Florida Legislature, AHCA, DOEA, CMS, and other entities regarding issues of reimbursement and health care finance policy.